Cantor’s Wall Street Bribe Is Hardly Anything, Say Corruption Defenders

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

“Once Eric Cantor’s new salary and signing bonus were announced earlier this week, it was only a matter of time before some began arguing that the combined $5.4 million in the first two years was actually a pittance in disguise. That time is today.

Politico’s Ben White has an article up this morning wondering whether former the House Majority Leader might find that post-2008 collapse Wall Street is no longer the revolving door for politicians it once was. Time was a lawmaker could decamp to lower Manhattan and refill his coffers before reentering politics, something apparently much harder to pull off given that bankers and traders still reek of the economic collapse. Just look at what happened to Mitt Romney!”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/cantors-defenders-argue-his-new-wall-street-gig-doesnt-even-pay-that-much/

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